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50 More of the Best Nonprofit Twitter Accounts to Follow Right Now

EveryAction

A while back, we shared a collection of awesome nonprofits that are doing Twitter right and the response was overwhelming. That's why, just in time to revamp your timeline for the fall, we thought you could use 50 more social-savvy organizations to follow, fav, and RT. Here's a brand new list of some of the best nonprofit Twitter accounts in the Twitterverse!

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Turning Social Media Millennials into Engaged Activists

Byte Technology

Over the past several years there’s been a question vexing non-profit organizations: how to attract the newest generation of philanthropists and turn them into active and engaged supporters, in essence how to turn social-media mavens into boots-on-the-ground activists and volunteers able to further a cause through hand-on involvement. Derrick Feldmann, lead researcher on the Millennial Impact Project and president of Achieve, a research and creative agency for cause-related organizations, has ta

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Resource: The Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Playbook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am thrilled to share The Emerging Leaders Playbook. It offers a comprehensive guide for emerging leaders and their mentors to help them make sense of the changing nature of leadership. The Playbook offers practical tools grounded in research, and accompanied by systems of support to guide reflection, growth, and organizational best practices. It is part of a project funded by the Packard Foundation that also includes an intensive peer learning program for emerging leaders and their mentors

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Free Expert Webinar: Learn Google Analytics to Improve Your Website & Attract More Members

Wild Apricot

Our next Expert Webinar will focus on two basic techniques with Google Analytics that will help you understand what is working and what is not with your Wild Apricot website, so you can sign up more members, raise more money and reach more people.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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The Keys to Identifying a Planned Giving Prospect

Donor Search

Some fundraisers feel that scouting for planned giving prospects is a lot like the world’s most difficult game of Where’s Waldo. You know he’s on the page, somewhere, but for the life of you, you cannot find him.

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Here’s Why People Donate to That Non-Profit and Not Yours

See3

Driving social change is not a feel good tactic, it is a science. Join us for a free webinar on "The Science of Effective Giving" on Thursday, September 3, 2015 from 1 PM to 2 PM Central Time. The post Here’s Why People Donate to That Non-Profit and Not Yours appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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No Cape Needed By David Grossman

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I'm super excited to read David Grossman's new book, No Cape Needed. David is both a communications and a leadership expert and I use his advice all the time. His new book provides, "the simplest, smartest, fastest steps to improve how you communicate by leads and bounds," explains David.

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5 Tips for Getting Media Pickup for Your Fundraising Campaign

Tech Soup

Getting the media to cover your organization's fundraising campaign can help you reach new donors, garner larger donations, and become a well-known, trusted entity in your community. But working with the media is tricky, especially if you don't have a dedicated marketing or press relations person on staff. However, a little media know-how can help you get some attention for your campaign.

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How to Design a High Holiday Appeal for the Attention Economy

See3

Donors want to feel like their contribution is making an important difference, rather than perpetuating the status quo. Even when your donors are a captive audience, design your stories for the very human experience of contributing to making the world a better place. The attention economy is a human economy. Design for it and the dollars will follow.

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#Buypens – Social Media and Crowdfunding Helps Syrian Refugee

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People who know me well, know that I have an obsession with pens and magic markers. So, when this viral fundraising campaign – #BuyPens – to help Syrian refugee came across my radar, it immediately caught my attention. When Gissur Simonarson , an activist from Oslo, Norway, shared a photo on Twitter last week of a father selling pens on the streets of Beirut as he cradled his sleeping daughter, the tugged at the heart strings of the 6,000 followers on Twitter.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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How To Lead Breakthrough Change

Eric Jacobsen Blog

David S. Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change.

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5 Tips to Collect More of Your Nonprofit’s Inspiring Stories

NonProfit Hub

Vanessa Chase is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. She is the President of The Storytelling Non-Profit and co-founder of Stewardship School. Vanessa works with nonprofit organizations to help them develop stories for donor communications and fundraising appeals. You can follow her on Twitter @VanessaEChase and find more storytelling resources on The Storytelling Non-Profit Blog.

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Is Your Nonprofit's Content Effective?

Care2

Are Google Analytics your best friend? Does data that gives you insight into your fundraising and advocacy strategy make you happy? If not, they should be. Analytics and metrics are what should be informing your content, your strategy, and your nonprofit campaigns. Recently General Assembly and HubSpot teamed up to generate a report to fill you in on all the important metrics: Introduction to Inbound Marketing Analytics and the Key Metrics Your Executives Want To See.

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The Secret Sauce for Productive Nonprofit Meetings that No One Talks About

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Iain. I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. One of the modules is on meetings. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. But often we forget to add the secret sauce: how to participate in meetings with impact.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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How To Discover Your Truth North

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In his new book, True North , Bill George shows you how to discover your true north - your internal compass that guides you successfully through life. "Only when you discover your true north can you unlock your full potential as a leader and human being," explains George. In the book, published a couple weeks ago, George shares with you how to: Cultivate self-awareness Define your values Find the "sweet spots": of your motivated capabilities Build your support team and lead an integrated life Ma

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Join Us at BoxWorks and Harness Online Tech

Tech Soup

BoxWorks is back and better than before. Join Box.org at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from September 28–30 for thought-provoking workshops, presentations, and discussions with other technology leaders who are figuring out how to use the cloud to enable success for their organizations. BoxWorks is about empowering IT leaders to take control of their technology destiny.

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How to Sleep Better After Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

NonProfit Hub

I sat in bed an hour and half before my alarm was supposed to go off. I was physically still tired, but my mind was racing. Sleep was no longer an option. The prior evening I had just helped put on the first major fundraising event for a nonprofit of which I am the executive director. The night was exhilarating and the culmination of a flurry of activity over the previous two months.

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Help Empower Women Rights Organizations in the Ukraine

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A branch of my family tree is from the Ukraine. At the age of 13, my grandfather left his country and ended up as a refugee in America. Despite harsh conditions, he made a new life in a new country, but never forgot his homeland. Now, almost 100 years later, I have an opportunity to give back to my ancestral homeland. I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Six Questions To Ask After You've Completed A Project

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here is some great advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work. Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? What actually happened? Why did this happen? What will we do next time? What should we continue to do? What should we do differently?

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[Guest Post] Events as a Donor Cultivation Tool

Donor Search

Here at DonorSearch’s blog, we strive to include the best content we can regarding prospect research and, more broadly, the nonprofit sector. With that goal in mind, we feature posts by guest authors from time to time to bring in a fresh perspective and new ideas.

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Save Money on Mobile While Giving Back with Sparrow

Tech Soup

This is a guest blog post by Heather Forsythe, chief marketing officer at Sparrow. I'd like to introduce you to Sparrow. Sparrow is a mobile service provider offering fair and transparent pricing to conscious consumers as well as nonprofits and those they serve. With each new Sparrow customer, a mobile device is donated to a person in need. So you can save money while paying it forward.

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3 Things To Know About Donor Behavior

Achieve

This article originally appeared on. Philantopic. on September 2, 2015. When I first got into fundraising, I executed campaigns without worrying too much about donors or spending a lot of time thinking about why or how they responded to particular strategies or appeals. Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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10 Signs That Indicate You Are Ready For A New Challenge

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Liz Wiseman 's latest book is Rookie Smarts. It's all about living and working perpetually on a learning curve. She contends that we do our best work when we are new to something. And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." "Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns his rookie smarts and is still able to retain his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman.

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Take Your Organization’s Instagram Outside the Box

NonProfit Hub

Instagram now supports horizontal and vertical photo formats, and people all over the world are rejoicing. Regular users no longer have to use a supplementary app that fits their portrait and landscape photos into the mandated square shape, and organizations can post comfortably knowing that none of their photo or video content must be cropped. As mentioned in Advertising Age , marketers no longer need to worry about specifically tailoring their visual content to fit Instagram’s standards.

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Free In-Person Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

NetSquared gathers together nonprofits and activists, tech leaders and funders, and everyone who's interested in using technology for social change. Every month, our meetup leaders host free in-person events in 60 cities. Find your closest group or apply to start a new group. Nonprofit staffers will find a friendly, welcoming atmosphere for those who aren't experienced with technology, and many chances to ask questions of tech-experienced nonprofits and experts.

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Customer Service: Well Done is Better than Well Said

Gyrus

Sticking with the Ben Franklin theme I started last week, today I discuss a personal example that illustrates the simple idea Franklin meant with his quote, “ Well done is better than well said.” I recently hired a contractor to replace the roof on my house. I previously used this company and was happy with their work, plus they have outstanding customer service so I was comfortable hiring them again.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Work Is Meaningful When.

Eric Jacobsen Blog

There are so many good things to learn in the book, Helping People Win At Work , by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge. Among those is the section about how to define meaningful work. Their definition consists of these seven attributes. Work is meaningful when it : It is conducted in a manner that is "good and proper" in all respects. It positively affects our company and our communities, giving our work an impact that extends beyond ourselves.

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The Answers to Your Crowdfunding Questions

NonProfit Hub

Josh Schukman is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. He’s the writing whiz for WonderWe —a crowdfunding social network that provides free viral tools for nonprofits to fundraise, recruit and measure impact like a pro. When not crafting beautiful musings for WonderWe, Josh can be found cooking up the latest Paleo dish (his fiancee’s fault), cycling all over God’s creation and/or endeavoring to understand the mysterious ways of the universe.

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Meditations on Relevance Part 5: Relevance is a Bridge

Museum 2.0

Blessing of the Replica Boards, July 19, 2015, 8am. Photo by Jon Bailiff. Relevance is not an end unto itself. It is a bridge. When you open the path, people flood in. You open the potential for something more. But a bridge to nowhere is quickly abandoned. Relevance only leads to deep meaning if it leads to something significant. Killer content. Substantive programming.

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The Facebook ‘Donate Now’ Button Should Be a No-Brainer for Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

Facebook announced some big news last week. Nonprofits now have the option to include a“Donate Now” button as a call to action on Pages and ads, offering visitors a direct path from Facebook to the donation forms on their websites. It only took a couple of days for the nonprofit blogosphere to offer their thoughts. Reactions ranged from“let’s wait and see” to “Facebook missed the mark” and “this is dumb and I hate it”.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.